John 17

The Great Intercessory Prayer: “Those Whom Thou Hast Given Me”

1. These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said,

A1 — Give Eternal LifeFather, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: 2. As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

B — That They Might Know Thee3. And this is life eternal, that they might know theethe only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

A2 — Glory, Before the World Was5. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

A3 — I have Manifested Thy Name (Thine They Were)6. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest meout of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

C — Given unto Them the Words7. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them,

D — Thou didst Send Meand have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

E — I Come to Thee (I Am No More In The World)9. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee.

F1′ — I Kept Them In Thy Name12. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thyname: those that thou gavest meI have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

E’ — Now Come I To Thee (I Speak In The World)13. And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

C’ — Given Them Thy Word (Sanctify Them Through Thy Truth)14. I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

15. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

D’ — Thou Has Sent Me (Sanctified Through The Truth)18. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

19. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctifiedthrough the truth.

A1′ — May Be One, One In Us, Even As We Are One, Perfect In One (Love)a. 20. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21. That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one;

b. and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

A2′ — Glory, Before The Foundation of The World (Lovedst Me)a. 24. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me:

b. for thou lovedst mebefore the foundation of the world.

B’ — I Have Known Thee25. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

A3′ — I Have Declared Thy Name (Love In Them, I In Them)a. 26. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it:

b. that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

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Summary outline

A1 — Give Eternal Life
B — That They Might Know Thee
A2 — Glory, Before the World Was
A3 — I have Manifested Thy Name (Thine They Were)

C — Given unto Them the Words
D — Thou didst Send Me

E — I Come to Thee (I Am No More In The World)
F — Keep through Thine Own Name
F — They May Be One, As We Are
F’ — I Kept Them In Thy Name
E’ — Now Come I To Thee (I Speak In The World)

C’ — Given Them Thy Word (Sanctify Them Through Thy Truth)
D’ — Thou Has Sent Me (Sanctified Through The Truth)

A1′ — May Be One, One In Us, Even As We Are One, Perfect In One (Love)
A2′ — Glory, Before The Foundation of The World (Lovedst Me)
B’ — I Have Known Thee
A3′ — I Have Declared Thy Name (Love In Them, I In Them)